The Faces of Gaia

All the creatures in this painting are within the Celtic Knot. One-part flows into another part of the knot as it is an image of the whole. It has become an image, for me, of our seen and unseen belonging within our home, the earth and the cosmos. The physicist David Bohm described the universe as an undivided wholeness in flowing movement, a single symphony of expressions. Rather than having a universe filled with things, cosmologist Brian Swimme explains in The Universe Is a Green Dragon, we are enveloped by a universe that is a single, energetic event, a whole, a unified, multiform and glorious outpouring of being. The diversification of the earth includes, the tortoise, the owl, the fox, the galaxies, my grandson and all the other creatures. All the figures belong fully to the whole knot.